(n.) That which gives ease, relief, or assistance; convenience; accommodation.
(n.) A liberty, privilege, or advantage, which one proprietor has in the estate of another proprietor, distinct from the ownership of the soil, as a way, water course, etc. It is a species of what the civil law calls servitude.
(n.) A curved member instead of an abrupt change of direction, as in a baseboard, hand rail, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump signs order reviving controversial pipeline projects “The Obama administration correctly found that the Tribe’s treaty rights needed to be respected, and that the easement should not be granted without further review and consideration of alternative crossing locations,” said Jan Hasselman, an attorney for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.
(2) The Obama administration declined to issue the easement in December and initiated an environmental impact study, a process that could have delayed the project for years.
(3) The army corps lacks statutory authority to simply stop the EIS and issue the easement,” the tribe said on Tuesday.
(4) His spokesman said the easement, which Obama had denied in December , “isn’t quite issued yet, but they plan to approve it” within days.
(5) He sought a more modest clarification of the guidelines: if he were to starve himself to death, what easement of pain could doctors give without fear of the law?
(6) The corps of engineers has twice delayed issuing the permit, known as an easement.
(7) Trump orders revival of Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines Read more The acting secretary of the army has directed the army corps of engineers to proceed with an easement necessary to finish the pipeline, Don Canton, spokesman for Hoeven, told the Associated Press.
(8) Between these two extremes, the OFT suggests a range of possible "easements and modifications".
(9) Company officials say they still need to acquire 12% of the total land easements from owners who have not yet reached a deal.
(10) People are jumping the gun, no easement has been issued,” he said, adding that he had confirmed that with the justice department.
(11) While these discussions and analysis are ongoing, construction on or under Corps land bordering or under Lake Oahe cannot occur because the Army has not made a final decision on whether to grant an easement,” the letter concludes.
(12) Aggression by law enforcement has always been intentional to force the government to give the easement.” “It’s escalating more and more to the point where law enforcement is not really concerned with human life,” he added.
(13) His uncle is an oil executive, and his brother works for oil companies around the globe, but he also has family members who are farmers in the midwest and have had easements forced across their own land for oil pipelines.
(14) The letter, revealed in court filings, states that the easement will be issued “no earlier than 24 hours” after the delivery of the letter, which is dated 7 February.
(15) Fees have been replaced by what the Labour party claims to want, a graduated and capped surtax, one corrupted by easements, postponements, bursaries and means tests.
(16) The easement has not yet been approved and the assistant secretary for civil works will “make a decision on the pipeline once a full review and analysis is completed”, he said.
(17) The best way to protect people during the winter, and reduce the risk of conflict between water protectors and militarized police, is to deny the easement for the Oahe crossing, and deny it now,” he added.
(18) Asked about Obama’s comments, pipeline spokeswoman Vicki Granado told the Guardian: “We are not aware that any consideration is being given to a reroute, and we remain confident we will receive our easement in a timely fashion.” The company’s announcement comes as North Dakota regulators are moving ahead with a formal complaint against the corporation for failing to properly disclose findings of Native American artifacts along the construction route.
(19) The non-profit Detroit Riverfront Conservancy has convinced landowners to grant permanent easements for it to build a 5.5 mile walkable, bikeable strip along the water’s edge.
(20) The 'Fair Use' doctrine and the 'Rights in Data' clauses of the general provisions of the Federal Procurement Regulations are discussed in detail; so is the use of Talent Consent and Waivers and Easements of Copyright.
Servitude
Definition:
(n.) The state of voluntary or compulsory subjection to a master; the condition of being bound to service; the condition of a slave; slavery; bondage; hence, a state of slavish dependence.
(n.) Servants, collectively.
(n.) A right whereby one thing is subject to another thing or person for use or convenience, contrary to the common right.
Example Sentences:
(1) Once installed, the alliance will become an awkward, obstructionist presence, committed, in the words of the Northern League's Matteo Salvini, to "a different Europe, based on work and peoples and not in the one based on servitude to the euro and banks, ready to let us die from immigration and unemployment".
(2) But though he’s helped liberate thousands of kids from servitude (and into education), 13 million children still toil in India’s supply chain alone.
(3) £30,000 Agencies report that victims are being sold on, along with their debt, for as much as £30,000, to other traffickers for multiple exploitation, including sex trafficking, domestic servitude and cannabis cultivation.
(4) Not now, not then, not ever.” Other survivors were seated in the public gallery at the start of a nine-day hearing dominated by the voices of people sexually abused from as young as two and three years old, after the British government sent them away from their parents into domestic and labour servitude in Australia and other Commonwealth countries.
(5) Kate Roberts, of Kalayaan, said: “For employers who consider that they in effect own the worker they employ, it is certainly convenient that the UK law now prevents their employee challenging any exploitation or even escaping from a situation where they have been trafficked for domestic servitude.” In response to the criticism, Karen Bradley, the minister for modern slavery and organised crime, announced a separate independent review into tied visas, due to be completed in the summer.
(6) Parents are required to bring up children responsibly, while living in a form of servitude to licensed employers and petty line managers, often themselves at risk of returning to zero-hours.
(7) Sometimes we can make £400 in a day.” Mehari does it because he loves to travel – since he came to the UK from Eritrea, escaping the national service there which is, in effect, limitless servitude to the government with pocket money, he’s been everywhere.
(8) People are generally trafficked for sexual exploitation, domestic servitude, forced labour, begging and organ extraction.
(9) Count Plunkett, who has recently been disinterned, and Professor John MacNeill, who after a long sentence of penal servitude for his part in the 1916 rising shared the benefit of the general amnesty, led in the House as vice presidents of Sinn Fein.
(10) We recently had a client who was in domestic servitude, forced to work in a nail bar during the day and every evening taken to a brothel and exploited there all night.” Human traffickers may face life sentence under Britain's tough new slavery bill Read more Methods used to lure children from Vietnam to the UK are also becoming increasingly sophisticated, including use of social media.
(11) The Operation Imperial team is investigating alleged offences of slavery, servitude, forced labour, false imprisonment, kidnap and assaults.
(12) May said victims were held against their will and forced into a life of abuse, servitude and inhumane treatment.
(13) Common problems experienced by children – such as autism, epilepsy, dyslexia or even simple naughtiness – could trigger accusations, said Ariyo, with children living away from home or in domestic servitude most likely to be targeted.
(14) The amendment’s first section reads: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Warren, Michigan, March 2016.
(15) Trafficking in this region has become deeply engrained.” In the village of Kunuri, Deepti Minch, 19, describes her experience of being trafficked into domestic servitude in northern India’s Punjab state.
(16) Hyland told the Guardian that the huge numbers of displaced people heading for Europe were “easy prey” for traffickers trading in servitude and sexual exploitation.
(17) Why don't we call this policy by the name it really is, namely the indentured servitude of our young people.
(18) Balira was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for knowingly holding another in servitude and common assault and ordered to pay Mathias £3,000 in compensation.
(19) Every woman, being with child, who, with intent to procure her own miscarriage, shall unlawfully administer to herself any poison... or unlawfully use any instrument... shall be liable ... to be kept in penal servitude for life.
(20) Drawing powerfully on her own family history – her great-great- grandfather lived as a slave – she spoke of “the story of generations of people who felt the lash of bondage, the shame of servitude, the sting of segregation, but who kept on striving and hoping and doing what needed to be done so that today I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves.